Good Girl's Guide to County Jail for the Bad Girl in Us All: Your Guide to the Incarcer Nation

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FriesenPress, Oct 2, 2017 - Law - 176 pages
This good girl did everything right for years. So why has everything gone so wrong for this selfmade business woman, Realtor, and mother of two? On a hot day in August she’s arrested for car-jacking, assault with a deadly weapon, and robbery. She’s just landed in the Incarcer Nation without a passport. Like the millions of women who came before her, she wants to leave the land of chain link, and barbed wire behind her. Fifty-nine days later this good girl gone bad walks out a free woman-or so she thinks.

This Good Girl gone BAD wants to help you:
● stay out of jail
● know how to use your rights
● understand the court process
● plea down your charges to minimize the risk of re-arrest
● understand how a conviction affects your future beyond bars

Filled with good advice from BAD GIRLS on the inside, and criminal law attorneys who tell it like it is. Cover your assets with these legal forms (and others you didn’t know you needed). They’re easy to fill-in, and are ready for the Notary Public

● Power of Attorney
● Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit
● Temporary Custody Order
● Letter to CPS Social Worker
● Consent for International Travel
 

Contents

Why This Book?
11
Chapter 1 Incarcer Nation Summer Vacation
15
Chapter 2 Things I Wish Id Known About the LawBefore I Got Busted
17
Chapter 3 Warranted Warrants
21
Chapter 4 Its Not A History Its A Herstory
23
Chapter 5 The Worlds Sadistic If Im The Statistic
33
Chapter 6 Public Defenders vs Private Attorneys or Whose Side Are You on Anyway?
37
Chapter 7 The Rights and Wrongs of Rights or You Have the Right to Remain Silent
39
Chapter 19 Fun Games
103
Chapter 20 Arts Crafts and Detox
107
Chapter 21 Things Id Change If I Could or Dream on Little Sister
109
Chapter 22 Hindsight Is 2020 or Is That 4040 with Half?
113
Chapter 23 Advisory Notice
117
Chapter 24 Annie Cant Get Her Gun Like Ever
119
Chapter 25 Recidivism Is An Ism or Keep Coming Back
123
Chapter 26 Pardon Me?
125

Chapter 8 Red Tape
57
Are You A BAD GIRL? Take the Test
60
Chapter 9 Things I Hate About the Inside or Tell It Like It Is Little Sister
63
Chapter 10 Every Innie Needs an Outie
65
Chapter 11 Bail Me Out Betty
67
Chapter 12 The Court Process
71
Chapter 13 Deputy Rules Not to Be Mistaken for the Law
81
Chapter 14 My Next Tattoo Will Be
85
Chapter 15 Whats Your Hustle? or You Know She Wants Your Commissary Right?
87
Chapter 16 BAD GIRLS Guide to INNER Beauty
89
Chapter 17 Finding Your INNER Chef or Dont Stew in Your Own Juices
93
Chapter 18 Hear My Prayer or God You Feel Me?
95
Chapter 27 The Tail That Entails
127
The BAD GIRLS Glossary of Terms
130
Glossary of Legal Terms Penal Codes Used in This Book
134
Acknowledgments
139
True That or How to Save Your Ass with An Affidavit
140
References
157
Bibliography
159
Suggested Reading
161
Artography
165
Excerpt from Good Girls Guide to Inner Peace for the GURU in Us All
169
Excerpt from I Stand Corrected
173
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About the author (2017)

Ellen Marie Francisco was born, and raised in Toronto. An early career in film development led her to Hollywood, where she spent decades on a NAFTA-induced Investor Visa running her catering business “Amazing Graze”. She has worked behind the scenes as a photographer for Cirque du Soleil, as a fan mail response writer, and proof-reader for Sidney Sheldon, and as a copywriter for a bi-coastal mass market publishing company. Her first short story won a Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category. Her art has been published internationally, and shown in galleries in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Ottawa. She lives in Ottawa with her two children and a Chihuahua named Piglet.

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